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Re:How do you make money from your free applications? by jasonkester on Thursday May 07, 2009 @01:58PM (#598352)
Actually I suspect the real answer is: Because it's not as much fun.

S3stat pays my rent, and it took a weekend to build. It's dead boring, but there's a market for it so people pay money.

Blogabond is still fun to play with 4 years in, was technically hard when I built it, and thousands of people use it and love it. When I tried putting ads on it, it brought in maybe two bucks a day.

So yeah, boring stuff makes you money, even if it's not that difficult.

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Re:How do you make money from your free applications? by csytan on Thursday May 07, 2009 @04:00PM (#598552)
Seems like you managed to find some time for fun while working on S3stat :)

http://www.s3stat.com/web-stats/cheap-bastard-plan.ashx

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Re:How do you make money from your free applications? by ericwaller on Thursday May 07, 2009 @05:04PM (#598677)
That's actually a great idea for a simple, low-tech affiliate scheme
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Re:How do you make money from your free applications? by run4yourlives on Thursday May 07, 2009 @03:15PM (#598484)
That's a very good point.

As a side note, my goodness please tell me you're putting more time and effort into S3Stat. I think you are seriously undervaluing it. Dressing it up with something prettier than webstats would, in my mind help you pay for a lot more than rent.

Good work.

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Re:How do you make money from your free applications? by aaroneous on Friday May 08, 2009 @01:09PM (#599918)
I had no idea S3Stat was made by someone on HN! I've been a customer of your nifty service for about six months now.

Good to hear I'm doing my part to put a roof over the head of a fellow hacker ;]

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